Naruto mangaka Masashi Kishimoto has revealed that Naruto is swiftly headed to its conclusion, much to the despair of fans and publishers alike.

In a recent interview with Asahi, he said that Naruto is “building towards a climax,” that its ending is already determined, and that “all that is left is a dash up to the ending.”

Just how long this “dash” to the ending will take is of course of crucial importance given the notoriously glacial pace of shonen battle manga, but on that point he is silent.

Naruto fans have misgivings, although unlike Bleach there is not much doubt that an end is in sight:

“I’m glad he is going to conclude it cleanly, but I’ll be sad to see it end.”

“I’m curious as to how it will end.”

“What’ll we do without Naruto?”

“Wait for Kishimoto’s next work please. I’d like another Naruto type battle manga, but it’ll probably be something different.”

“He can always put out the odd Naruto gaiden if he feels like making some cash.”

“He says he started off with Naruto, an orphan character people could feel sorry for… what about Sasuke, Iruka, Gaara, Temari, Kankuro, Sai, Orocihmaru, Kabuto, Sasori, […], do something for them too! There are mountains of orphans in this work…”

“What about poor Yamato, a human experiment, do something for him!”

“I guess his thinking really changed after he became a father.”

“He talks about how he wanted to depict ‘bonds’ after he got married and became a father.

That would have been just before the skip, at around volume 20?

So for the next ten years he was showing Pain’s invasion and the many trials of Kyuubi training, how interesting…”

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i like the series and glad it is ending i surely dont wanna die before knowing what becomes of the chars. also american comics are WAY worse on excessive longness….. some superheros are over 50 years old reincarnated too many times with too many spinoffs. people like what they like

At the very least, Naruto will end whenever and how ever Kishimoto wishes it to with a peaceful slumber. Bleach seems like it’s heading towards a Lassie finish where digruntled Jump execs will force Kubo to put his suffering old dog out of its misery.

Well doesnt surprise me, least I wont be 40 and reading Naruto. But it did seem like it was gonna end unless he came up with new crazy material and it doesnt look like it will follow naruto as a hokage thought it might, but suppose he could do something with konohamaru but yeah all the strainds seem to have been tied up. I just hope we finally got some sort of resolution with Sasuke even if naruto dies, I am thinking he might he just reached way too high of a legendary level and when characters do that they usually die.

If you couldn’t see the series building up to a final climax already, you’re not too bright.

I can’t wait, really. Naruto USED to be one of the best of the shonen action genre, but as time went on and Kishimoto started reconning things in really stupid ways, it just started lining up sharks to jump. It’s endless obsession with Sasuke, one of the most unlikeable and irritating characters EVER, is arguably the worst part. At the moment I’m only really reading it out of trainwreck fascination. I just want to see the post-series epilogue chapter where Naruto is married to Hinata.

“Pokemon > Digimon”
Is this guy serious? Perhaps in terms of the games they were better, but anime wise digimon was always a step above pokemon. Want proof? Look at Ash/Satoshi: anime’s greatest jobber.

I wonder if they will do something with Hinata. It would feel bad if they just concluded the main story and left her in the same position. Even if they don’t make a pairing, at least a “sorry but I don’t like you in the same way” would be appropriate from Naruto. (but ofc I would like to see them together, if possible)

Might be strange but this part is nearly as important for me as the main story.

Um, yeah, thanks for the news we already knew, Artefact. I mean, it’s already two years that Kishimoto is building this climax with this war between the united forces of Good against the villain. The only plot thread that’s still going is the conflict between Naruto and Sasuke, and it’s implied that it’s going to be resolved soon, so I don’t get how this is news to pepole.

To the Piece tards, One Piece SUCKS. Oda has already stated in an interview (go to onepiece.wikia.com, search Eiichiro Oda for more information) that the planned ending for One Piece has not changed and that since the series sell well INSIDE JAPAN, he has altered the mid-story 9 times already. He says the ending is something he has already come up with when he created the first One Piece issue, but that he never really planned to add Franky and Brook to the main story line. Sales continue to be AVERAGE in the western world, and both the manga and the anime has been banned in China and Nepal because of ‘imparting a sense of immaturity and homosexuality in the minds of the children’. You can Google it for more information.

[quote]Wonder what would happen when the big 3 end…
What will replace it or will the world end before it ever happens?[/quote]
The next big 3. Seriously, what do you expect? The phrase “All this has happened before and it will happen again” is very appropriate here.

sad??? what???
they should end this shit really soon… it’s unwatchable, there is no story anymore! it’s a dishonor to other animes!!!
the first 100 episodes were good, but they should have ended it years ago….. it’s really fucked up shit now, hopefully they won’t drag it into the next year

There always was only One Piece and the pathetic rest that came behind it. Look at the sales, there is just no competition. Oh and for the gay haters: Your hate doesn´t change that fact so keep on crying in agony you little cunts! :]

What the hell is Jump thinking? They’re ending three of their popular mangas almost at the same time: Bakuman, Bleach, Naruto. Aren’t they scared that sales will go down? They need new big hits and they need them fast.

Woah woah! Don’t compare death note ( manga, not the anime ) to naruto and bleach just because it hit mainstream. It was almost as good as Bakuman in the manga. And for Code Geass, I guess you just can’t handle the awesomeness. I pity you.

I hate One Piece because of all the nakama faggotery, Naruto (Anime) because of the fillers (i might read the manga now that it is over), Bleach because it is boring. I do think code geass is one of the best anime ever made, and unfortunately i haven’t seen death note yet.
Reasons enough no to be considered mainstream hater?

Sigh anything mainstream = bad I guess. I mean atleast provide reasons for the hate besides the usual it sucks argument it really is getting boring that the same idiots repeat the same thing over and over again. sigh arguing is so pointless now.

I always found it interesting how white fans of naruto, bleach, and one piece don’t seem to realize that they’re mainly aimed at 12-year old japanese boys.

Of course, ToLOVEru is (or at least was) shounen too. Which is awesome, because that then makes grabbing and massaging your 11-year old imouto’s butt (Chapter 157 in the original, Shounen Jump manga) wholesome entertainment for children in Japan.

Except that the main fanbase of all the Big 3 in Japan is made by pepole in their twenties, particularly in the case of One Piece. Toloveru on the other hand, was a piece aimed only to young boys and kids, because of its corny fanservice and saucy comedy. If adults want something more risque they certainly don’t read Toloveru, the kids that want to read something sexy and can’t buy nothing but Jump do.

you are a dooshbag and obviously like k on which sucks so bad that i couldnt even get through 3 episodes. i dont care for one piece but naruto, code geass, bleach and death note were all good so die bitch. u are no anime fan

Haha, you’re probably some low dirty American douche bag who has no life but to watch 2-dimensional or asian porno. Dude, just gtfo. There are good anime out there that don’t include ero-themes. So if you only watch anime for the girls, like a creepy ass fat shit, then go ahead.

I love One Piece, but I like Naruto too. It’s kinda sad that people need to bash one or the other just because they don’t like it. Your free to your opinions, but that doesn’t mean it just all right and dandy to hate on people who’s opinion differs from yours.

Cuz fighting is pointless (especially when it’s with people you don’t even know -_-)

This isn’t really a place where you can find legit opinions on shounen manga 😛
Look at the comments, they say everything is crap but they pick ToLoveRu as an exception, which has the least meaning of anything (not bagging it though, it’s awesome). Clearly means they think only about ecchi 😛

Yes, and it could’ve continued a lot longer with just being in the city, but as it stands, the introduction of the Soul Society explained a lot of things, and saving Rukia was actually a good plot device. The whole Aizan thing though…

Its gonna have to be epic on a whole other lv to top off the series. I beat it will probably be like the Spirit Bomb where he gets energy from everyting including the people and nature, “Spirit Rasengan” or “Kibo(Hope) Rasengan”.

no that’s the worst part, as people say ““I guess his thinking really changed after he became a father.”!
shall be some crapy ‘bond’ ending, while the bad guys if there are any bad guy left anymore.. will all die by rasengan..

LOL there’s been manga authors who are seriously concerned that the shounen trinity has been all that’s keeping the manga industry going. Now that they’re starting to retire who knows what’s going to happen, lol.

sad to see naruto go its been pretty good just hope before it ends we get another time skip to see naruto as hokage and see what happens to everyone.

also why do people need to bring one piece into this. seriously do you fags have anything other to do than bash one piece all the time. all ths crap that one piece is for kids is only said by morons who have never seen it. 90% of one piece fans are adults. japan loves one piece a hell of allot.

Seems like Naruto and Bleach have announced an ending at some point that has been decided, haters of the Big 3 are pushing it all against One Piece. One Piece’s full story is still going and has a large fan base. Get over it and go back to sucking on your mommy’s tits….after she finishes sucking on me.

The Idea Of One Piece’s Protagonist Comes From A Lonely No-Lifer Hikikomori Teenager Two Days Past Finding The Second Use Of His Penis, Now Playing With It In The Attic Not Knowing How To Get An Erection And Pulling It Outwards & Around, Noticing The Elastic Properties Of It, Ergo Using It Mixed With His Stupid 6-Year-Old Fantasy Of Becoming A Pirate And Using the Satellite In The Sewer By The Street To Broadcast His Drawings Allover The Attic Wallz.

Man I hope that another manga like this one comes out soon, Naruto is my favorite manga at the moment and is the only one that entertain me a lot. Bleach sucks now. I hope I could get into one piece but its too long for me to catch up because of work 🙁

Wait why do you care? Obviously from the sounds of it you don’t like Bleach, haven’t been reading Bleach lately so I can’t fathom why you should have even an ounce of care as to whether it should finish or not. And FYI, it is the final arc, so the end is coming soon.

He’s just telling the guy to direct his frustration to a more relevant target. It’s obvious that all three authors drag out their stories for business. Regardless of who does it “better” than the other, Oda has been doing it the longest and Kubo is relatively new.

I’m starting to see a pattern and not a good one. once naruto ends I mean completely ends (meaning manga and anime), I’m sure they’ll reair it, but without all the fillers. Like they did with dbz kai. I’m sure they’ll do it for bleach and one piece as well. I hope I’m wrong because those 3 shows need to end and give other shows a chance and besides they’ve been on for too long stop milking it and end already.

I don’t hate Naruto, nor do I love it though.
I believe this is the right thing to do, it’s already hard to for me to like shounen, and with fucking useless movies and spoilers, this thing needed a fixed end since a long time ago.

No, not at all, that’s just the conclusion you got by yourself, I pretty much enjoy almost all anime I watch, since I don’t really care about details, is just that when you watch Naruto for example, you feel like a idiot, because they have to explain pretty much every move someone does in a fight.

And I don’t put “expectations” in anime, I just enjoy it, either I like it or not, not even I know, I have to watch so I can say it’s worth or not.

One Piece is the epitome of gayness, THE WHOLE STORY AND CONCEPT is fucken homosexual, child porn. The act of a group of gay butt pirates on a boat that travels the world in order to steal and persuade your children to join their group orgy for more “adventures” is JUST FUCKEN SICKENING who the fuck would want to watch that shit

Fuck one piece with retarded animation made by damaged-brains from WW II atomic bomb and mumbo jumbo story that only 5 year olds will like.the guy up & turns to rubber and wantsa become a super “pirate”. Nothing more than slapstick gubbledygook to put children to sleep better at nights.Get over your struggle to bring your stone age animation and 3.6p quality crap where you can count the pixels blindfolded and with one finger, to the 21st century of Digital Terrestrial Television you simpletons.

Fuking finally!
naruto was already getting annoying, so many fillers, then +10 episodes of talk in the middle of the battle, then +1 of the battle, proceed to repeat, so retarded.
although movies are actually interesting, along with the games, only good things about all of this.

5. Naruto and Sasuke fight each other, but it ends in a tie and then a 5 year time-skip happens showing Sasuke getting a postcard with a picture attached on the back showing Naruto fucking Hinata and Sakura in a twosome while wearing Naruto wearing the Hokage hat on his head with his middle point to the camera and then Sasuke gets jelly and commits suicide…

Naruto merges with The Ninetails, they ascend to godhood and protect the land for all eternity. Ending 10 minutes of the show is random close ups of each and every person he’s met, one by one, looking up at the sky while sentimental music is playing.

Lots of hipsters here eh. Moving on to the topic at hands, of course naruto is coming to an end soon, there isin’t much left in the plot, naruto kills the bad guy with a mask, he then fight against sasugay, he wins, obviously, then there’s the jump 10 years later where you see naruto has a hokage, the end….

if failing means you’re afraid of us, think us barbarians, can’t get a job doing nothing while getting paid a lot like we can, and can’t take us in a fight, is failing, then failing feels soo good. P.S. your women like us better too